the Herbarium of Professor Pallas. 259 



species. Of Moliiccella grandiflora of the Species Platitarum by 

 Willdciiow, wliich is M. diacatithopliijlla of Pallas in Nov. Act. 

 Petrop. vol. X. page 380, table 11, the very specimens from 

 uliicli the figures seem to have been made, are named in his MS. 

 Moluccella quadrangularis, species nova edeserto Buscarico. A plant 

 "hich he describes in the Appendix to his Travels as Planta 

 Salsa, &c., and supposes it to be a Cacalia, 1 have not been 

 able to discover as yet, unless he has placed it in another genus, 

 which is most likely, or that somebody is more fortunate than 

 m^'self in the possession of it. Lamarck observes in the preface 

 to Pallas's Travels, that he mentions the same plants repeatedly, 

 even the most common ones, — which certainly is sometimes the 

 case ; because, perhaps, he thought that they would be better 

 understood by the generality of his readers, and did not like to 

 give details of new species there, which he intended to publish 

 in a work devoted to that purpose. As I am preparing to give a. 

 catalogue of all the species found in his Herbarium, with the ob- 

 servations I there find in MS., I shall now only submit to the 

 Society an account of some of the most remarkable species that 

 I have already noticed ; and express a hope that in future every 

 botanist sent on similar expeditions may execute his charge with 

 as much assiduity as Pallas has done, and bring us home as ex- 

 tensive collections. 



PENTSTEMON frutescens. 

 Tab. VI. Fig. 1. 

 Pentstemon caule frutescente ramoso. 

 Digitalis Dasyantha. Pall. MSS. 

 Habitat in Camtschatka et Unalashka. Pall, MSS. ^> 



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